Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the full horizon (3-36 months) of network supply and inventory plans for being manufactured at Sites/CMOs – volume is the primary focus with a strong understanding of the financials.  This role sets the supply plans for all product volumes flowing through the sites/CMOs.
  • Develops supply plans (rolling 36 months S&OP plans in Rapid Response) to meet the market demands and inventory targets, considering the availability of raw and intermediate materials
  • Integrate 3-year and 10-year strategic demand plans with those operational demand plans in Rapid Response
  • Owns the analysis for operational capacity planning including maximization of existing capacity, supply scenario analysis and long-range capital investment and capacity planning across all products, all manufacturing locations
  • Evaluates scenarios to support Commercial tender requests, upsides opportunities, and selling mix changes
  • Escalates infeasible supply plans in the IBP cycle they are identified.  Provides scenarios with financial impact for presentation at Supply Review Meetings.  Collaborates across sites and functions to ensure gap minimizing scenarios are identified and feasible – this includes key stakeholder management across multiple functions 
• Responsible for global inventory plans of all Paste, Intermediates, semi-Finished Products, and Finished Products as an outcome of the demand and supply balancing and optimization targets
• Supports the Supply Review Meetings (SRMs) and Global Supply Review Meeting (GSRM) with planning analysis, supply scenarios, and continuous improvement initiatives in order ensures feasible supply plans.  Supports the BU Executive IBP Meeting with analysis and scenarios to address supply or inventory plan escalations. 
• Collaborates closely with demand planning and finance to ensure demand plans have a feasible supply and inventory plans and aligned with “One Plan”, to validate plan-to-plan changes, to provide feedback on excess inventory situations, and to support root causing on service and cost issues.  Collaborates on supply allocation between markets when supply/demand imbalance exists. 
• Ensures the integration of new product development, clinical trials and commercialization into the supply plans including commercialization calendars, demand and supply plans, and new strategic planning initiatives as needed
• Measures and manages key metrics to drive best practice and continuous improvement of the integrated business planning process, specifically supply and inventory management.  This includes plan performance, inventory turns, and service measurements.
• Drives resolution for supply chain issues through close coordination with manufacturing, quality, regulatory affairs, communications, marketing, and others as required to ensure that the needs of our patients, local affiliates and markets, and our business are met.
• Influential leader of the site master schedulers at each site/CMO to align supply and inventory plans and track planning performance
• Practices good IBP behaviors and helps to generate alignment across multiple business functions.  Leads metric review and root causing below-target performance with corrective action implementation.  Develops and clearly presents decisions to be made in IBP meetings which includes scenarios that have financial impact on the outcome of our business.

Work Environment:

*** This is a hybrid position based onsite at any of the posted locations with a minimum of 3 days onsite weekly.  Relocation and mobility assistance are not provided.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required from ideal fields of Supply Chain, Engineering, or Sciences; a Masters of Business Administration is preferred
• 8+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry
• 5+ years of experience with SAP; Advanced SAP (S/4 HANA) knowledge
• 5+ years of experience with an advanced planning tool, Kinaxis RapidResponse, APO SNP, or other
• Required to operate and influence in a global environment – English language fluency is required
• Certification in APICS CPIM/CSCP, IBF, or similar is expected
• Experience in business planning, S&OP, Project management or other relevant cross-functional processes is required
• Strong business acumen and understanding of business strategies
• Strong analytical, technical and problem solving skills
• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills in a global network
• Strong ability to plan and organize work
• Demonstrated capabilities in change management and stakeholder management
• Commitment to leading a continuous improvement culture within area of responsibility
• Competencies required: Customer focus, decision quality, drives results, plans & aligns, manages complexity, drives engagement

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor  visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

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At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

 To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

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